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Getting ready to plant cucurbits Before planting a land to any of the cucurbits, you should kill off all broad-leaved weeds nearby, preferably well beforehand.
10/02/2020
Farmers enjoy bumper pumpkin harvest but low price Farmers have been enjoying a bumper crop of pumpkins but the price of pumpkins has dropped drastically to merely VND4,000-VND5,000 per kilogram.
28/11/2019
Planting vegetables: 3 things to consider What should you ask yourself when deciding which vegetables to plant? Vegetable expert Bill Kerr explains.
17/10/2019
Beating cucurbit viruses Viruses infecting the pumpkin family have always been a major problem. Susceptible crops become almost completely infected late in the season
03/10/2019
Thai farmers on the cash trail with snail slime Giant snails inch across a plate of pumpkin and cucumber in central Thailand, an "organic" diet to tease the prized collagen-rich mucus from the molluscs
28/08/2019
Bac Son commune has brought Dien pomelo trees to become main crops Bac Son has strongly transformed the area of unstable rice cultivation into seedlings such as bitter melon, pumpkin, melon and so on to gradually increase
12/01/2019
Get the spacing right with these veggies When planting any pumpkin, marrow, gem or other Cucurbitaceae, it’s important to get the spacing right. Get it wrong, and you could lose 50%
11/12/2018
The strange history of the butternut Butternut belongs to the species Cucurbita moschata. Our regular pumpkins are C. maxima; gems and marrows are C. pepo.
30/11/2018
Your cucurbits will get viruses Apart from powdery mildew (discussed in last week’s column), viruses are the next challenge that almost every cucurbit grower will face at some stage.
15/11/2018
Watching your cucurbits grow As with any crop, there’s a risk to planting cucurbits and then doing ‘bakkie’ farming – skirting the land with your head half-way out of the driver’s side wind
13/11/2018